Northern Lower Austria Alps | |
Other Name: | Lower Austria Alps |
Country: | Austria |
Subdivision2 Type: | States of Austria |
Subdivision2: | Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria |
Parent: | Alps |
Highest: | Hochstadl |
Elevation M: | 1919 |
Coordinates: | 47.6864°N 15.0753°W |
Geology: | Sedimentary rocks[1] |
Orogeny: | Alpine orogeny |
The Northern Lower Austria Alps or Lower Austria Alps (Niederösterreichische Nordalpen in German) is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountains in a new, and as yet unadopted, classification of the Alps. They are the northernmost section of the Alps.
Administratively the range belongs to the Austrian state of Lower Austria and, marginally, to the states of Upper Austria and Styria.The whole range is drained by the Danube river.
According to the proposal by SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps), the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:[2]
Lower Austria Alps are divided into three Alpine subsections:
The chief summits of the range are:
Name | metres | feet | |
---|---|---|---|
Hochstadl | 1,919 | 6,294 | |
Ötscher | 1,893 | 6,209 | |
Großer Sulzberg | 1,400 | 4,592 | |
Reisalpe | 1,399 | 4,589 | |
Tirolerkogel | 1,380 | 4,526 | |
Bürgeralpe | 1,002 | 4,166 | |
Traisenberg | 1,002 | 4,034 | |
Eibl | 1,002 | 3,287 | |
Schöpfl | 893 | 2,929 |